Well the subject line says it all. I have a just recently purchased a RB-110 along with the Mini VGA card. I have been trying desperately to get some form of Display output from it but so far I have been unsuccessful. I really need some help in getting at the BIOS so that I can get started with this board. Here is some information that may help.....

Power Supply - 12V 2Amps

Have tried the VGA Card by going through a KVM switch.
I use a PS2 to USB Keyboard and Mouse 'Y' Cable
I have tried the Serial (COM1 ans 2) port method of communication

The board powers up and the RED LED come on... a few seconds later the GREEN LED comes on...

Also.. How does everybody else gain access to the BIOS? What am I missing here..

Thanks in advance,

NewBee - Feeling Pretty Dumb

Greetings all,

Well the subject line says it all. I have a just recently purchased a RB-110 along with the Mini VGA card. I have been trying desperately to get some form of Display output from it but so far I have been unsuccessful. I really need some help in getting at the BIOS so that I can get started with this board. Here is some information that may help.....

Power Supply - 12V 2Amps

Have tried the VGA Card by going through a KVM switch.
I use a PS2 to USB Keyboard and Mouse 'Y' Cable
I have tried the Serial (COM1 ans 2) port method of communication

The board powers up and the RED LED come on... a few seconds later the GREEN LED comes on...

Also.. How does everybody else gain access to the BIOS? What am I missing here..

OS - I have actually created 2 SD chips with operating systems on them. One with WinXp and the other with Ubuntu. At this point I still do not know if either will boot because of my 'Visibility' problem.

PS2-USB - Thanks for this bit of information. It is well received. However I do have a question. Would my use of this PS2-USB configuration cause the problems that I am seeing with the Video card? I guess that I would have assumed that I would at least be able to see the initialization and 'POST' statements.

I will get a USB keyboard and mouse and try this out... Thanks for your suggestions...

rrbecker

Hi Roboard,

Thanks for all the great information, it is greatly appreciated.

OS - I have actually created 2 SD chips with operating systems on them. One with WinXp and the other with Ubuntu. At this point I still do not know if either will boot because of my 'Visibility' problem.

PS2-USB - Thanks for this bit of information. It is well received. However I do have a question. Would my use of this PS2-USB configuration cause the problems that I am seeing with the Video card? I guess that I would have assumed that I would at least be able to see the initialization and 'POST' statements.

I will get a USB keyboard and mouse and try this out... Thanks for your suggestions...

BTW... I guess at this point that I must assume that the RoBoard can not provide video output through the KVM switch that I am using and must drive a VGA video display directly... is this a correct assumption?

Again Thanks in advance...

rrbecker

BTW... I guess at this point that I must assume that the RoBoard can not provide video output through the KVM switch that I am using and must drive a VGA video display directly... is this a correct assumption?

the VGA card should always have output at boot time. If you have installed the VGA card correctly and your card still has no output at BIOS boot screen, you may need to replace or repaire your VGA card.

Hi, rrbecker,

the VGA card should always have output at boot time. If you have installed the VGA card correctly and your card still has no output at BIOS boot screen, you may need to replace or repaire your VGA card.

Yes, that is what I thought. I tried everything I knew first, before concluding that the board was bad. I re-seated the board many time and examined the board under a magnifying glass in hopes of discovering a repairable defect.

I have notified www.robotshop.com and I am awaiting an answer from them on whether they will repair or replace the board.

Thanks for all your help. I will let you know how it goes. In the mean time I will be working with the RoBoard via the Serial port.

rrbecker

Hi Roboard, How are you....

Yes, that is what I thought. I tried everything I knew first, before concluding that the board was bad. I re-seated the board many time and examined the board under a magnifying glass in hopes of discovering a repairable defect.

I have notified www.robotshop.com and I am awaiting an answer from them on whether they will repair or replace the board.

Thanks for all your help. I will let you know how it goes. In the mean time I will be working with the RoBoard via the Serial port.

Well it took awhile to get the VGA card back but it did arrive yesterday. I plugged it in and everything started working as advertised. I had already installed Ubuntu and it came up just great, and in Graphics mode to boot.

I am currently working to get the Ethernet port to work but that should not be a problem, as far as I can see.

Also as a side note, I am using a KVM switch and I am able to switch between my main PC and the RoBoard very nicely. This obviously allows me to have a single Keyboard, Video Display and Mouse.

One other interesting thing is that I can also use the PS2 to USB 'Y' cable for the mouse and keyboard. The RoBoard seem to like it just fine. It is able to 'See' a Keyboard and a Mouse across a single USB connector...

I will post more as I make progress...

rrbecker

Hi again All,

Well it took awhile to get the VGA card back but it did arrive yesterday. I plugged it in and everything started working as advertised. I had already installed Ubuntu and it came up just great, and in Graphics mode to boot.

I am currently working to get the Ethernet port to work but that should not be a problem, as far as I can see.

Also as a side note, I am using a KVM switch and I am able to switch between my main PC and the RoBoard very nicely. This obviously allows me to have a single Keyboard, Video Display and Mouse.

One other interesting thing is that I can also use the PS2 to USB 'Y' cable for the mouse and keyboard. The RoBoard seem to like it just fine. It is able to 'See' a Keyboard and a Mouse across a single USB connector...